Southam
TownTown in Stratford-on-Avon, West Midlands.
Southam is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Southam add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Southam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southam compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southam safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southam at a rate of 48.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 38 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southam.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (161), anti-social behaviour (112) and other crime (76).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Southam was 58.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Southam, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Southam has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Southam
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford-on-Avon 004A | 2,278 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Stratford-on-Avon 004B | 1,439 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Stratford-on-Avon 004C | 1,902 | 41.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Stratford-on-Avon 004D | 2,490 | 69.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
Your MP
- Sir Jeremy WrightConservativeMP for Kenilworth and Southam
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Southam1
Middle areas in Southam1
Towns near Southam6
Southam in brief
Southam is a town in Stratford-on-Avon, West Midlands.
About 9,234 people lived in Southam in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £304,000 in 2025 across 154 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Southam was £304,000 in 2025.
Southam had 8,103 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Southam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southam, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.